Brainstorming...chinese names

Over the weekend, we started to brainstorm about names....actually, more doing that for fun rather than in a hurry to decide on something concrete.

We have actually asked YL's dad to do the honours of naming our son. YL's dad however told YL that as a father, YL himself should have some inputs on the name too, so he told us to come up with some options on the chinese character(s) and then he will work around it and come up with something that everyone will be happy with.

Well, YL wants the child to be a happy one and also to bring joy to people around. So he is now thinking of ending the chinese name with the chinese character 乐 ("Le4" = "happy/joy"). Otherwise, the character 乐 could also serve as the middle one. I.e. Bambino's chinese name could be 林乐XX or 林XX 乐, of which XX is the unknown chinese character to be filled in by YL's dad.

Plus point is that the chinese character 乐 also reads yue4 meaning "music" as in 音乐 and it fits with one of the daddy's hopes for his bambino too (i.e. to be musically-inclined)...

So, for a while, we were thinking of temporarily giving our bambino a 小名 (xiao3 ming2 = little name normally used for a child) called 乐乐 ("Le4 Le4" = "happy happy"), but it sounded strangely familiar. YL then checked up the name on the internet and found out that its the name of one of the giant pandas in the Beijing Zoo!!! Quite funny hor?? :)

But i think we will temporarily still call him 乐乐 lah....hopefully he doesn't come out with two "O Mak Kaks" (black panda eyes)!!

[p/s: We have since been told by friends that the name 乐乐 was also the name of one of the grandson in the Hong Kong TV series called 真情 (Zhen1 Qing2)]

Anyway, choosing a name is such a fun process. But it also reflects so much of what a parent hopes for the child to become. I was telling YL that better not inflate his expectation too much of bambino, lest he grows up to be a stressed-out kid!

We agree that the most important thing that we hope for the child is to be a person of good character, that he is happy and healthy....praying daily that the child will have a good temperament/nature so that he can be a friend to many...